Profile Information

Your Religious Status

Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic

Age

31-35

Why are you here?

Because you are.

The religion you left

Was never a part of one

Why you left your religion.

I never joined a religion when I was young because I never felt that people joined for the right reasons. It always seemed like a psychological shortcut to satiate one's fears of death and to answer the deepest questions of our existence. I feel that exploring these mysteries is one of the greatest pleasures in life.

Existential Psychology and Theism

Existential psychology, at least to a certain point, consists of exploiting the recoil from the despair of finiteness... The survival instinct tends to prolong life. The fundamental drive tends to inform itself about the universe.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.It really is one of my favorites,and one I have shared
with many theist friends and relatives when they bring up the atheism topic.
It says everything I want to say without being condescending and argumentative,although my guess is they don't watch it ;-(.

Same here. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. "I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around."- Jack Handey